"Praise for Henry Hyde's Battle Maps" Topic

[Bill: I think I'm within the rules. He did advertise them here, and it's a favorable review. If I've missed, something, please accept my apolgy and nuke the thread.]

If any of you haven't looked at Henry Hyde's "Battle Maps for Miniature Wargamers" I'd urge you to do so. It's just what it says on the tin--52 maps for wargame tables, all in color and most shaped as 2:3 rectangles suitable for the now-ubiquitous 4x6' table. In each case, the opposite page has a paragraph about the potential use, and a large blank space for notes. I'm thinking of getting mine spiral-bound at Office Depot, but really it's quite workable as it is.

A couple of hedges. None of the maps appear to be original, and in fact someone with a good set of Battlegames and Henry's time at MW probably has most of them--somewhere. Some are desert, some are wooded, some lend themselves more to skirmish/RPG and others more to larger battles, and some of the railroads would have to be converted to roads prior to the ACW. I'd have called three or four excessively blank--fields with camps on the table edges and such. But they're here in one place and I think anyone with either a good skirmish/RPG set of a pair of matched armies could use 90% of them. As Henry points out, they're easily combined for a campaign system.

My copy's going next to the Charles Grant Scenario books on the shelf, which is high praise.

I had enough credit at Wargame Vault to pick it up "free" and am glad I did so. For me it is basically just a fun read and a source of ideas. Its wide flexible applicability is both its virtue and its limitation. They are JUST maps, no scenarios and so imagination (and also a large inventory of terrain pieces) are required.